04Systems at scale

COVID-HELP

Founder & Lead Developer · 2021

10,000+ people to live ICU beds and oxygen

10,000+people served · ~99.9% uptime

A platform I founded during India's second COVID wave that connected 10,000+ people to live ICU-bed and oxygen availability.

Finding an open bed or an oxygen cylinder was a matter of hours. I founded and led a real-time crisis-response platform that served 10,000+ people, aggregating data from 50+ sources at ~99.9% uptime through unpredictable traffic. Node and Firebase powered the real-time updates, and I led a 15+ person cross-functional volunteer team on Agile.

Stack
  • Node.js
  • Firebase
  • REST APIs
  • Real-time
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How it's built

SPECIFICATION
Scale
10,000+ users in production
Uptime
~99.9% through crisis spikes
Ingestion
aggregated 50+ live sources
Team
15+ cross-functional volunteers
Backend
Node.js · Firebase, real-time
MY ROLE
  • 01Founded the platform and led a 15+ person volunteer team on Agile.
  • 02Architected the ingestion pipeline aggregating 50+ live sources.
  • 03Held ~99.9% uptime through unpredictable crisis traffic.
Saksham Srivastava | Full-stack Developer